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closingofsugar_15.pdf (6.48 MB)

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1996

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Nishimoto, Warren

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A retired Honokaa Sugar Company worker describes his jobs from weeding as an eleven-year-old to operating a push rake just before retiring. His other jobs include cane bundler, hapai ko (cane-carrying) man, flag boy, mule operator, steam plow operator, railroad brakeman and fireman, cane washer operator, and crane operator.
sugar plantation field laborer, mule and steam plow operator, sugar plantation locomotive brakeman and fireman, sugar plantation mill worker, crane operator; Puerto Rican;
Interview conducted in English.male

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Hamakua, Sugar Cane

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30250

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53 min
27 pages

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Honokaa, Hawaii

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DU629 .H36 H36 1997

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The Closing of Sugar Plantations: Interviews with Families of Hamakua and Ka‘u, Hawai‘i